How to Use and Enable/Disable 'Safe Mode' in Windows 8

If you want to boot into Safe Mode to try and fix any issue, you need to enable it manually because it doesn't come enabled in Windows 8 by default.

To enable and use Safe Mode, follow the inline steps:

Click Start and click Search.

Type cmd and press Enter. cmd.exe appears in the results list.

Right-click on cmd.exe. An Advanced icon displays on the lower, right corner of the screen.

Click on Advanced icon and select Run as administrator. The User Account Control dialog box gets displayed.

Click Yes to continue.

Type bcdedit /enum /v on the command prompt and press Enter.

Type bcdedit /copy on the command prompt but this time do not press Enter.

Now, you need to add the identifier of the Windows Boot Loader with a description. For this scroll down to the Windows Boot Loader display. Right-click and select Mark from the popup menu. It will highlight the identifier. Press Enter to copy it

Go to the command prompt where you typed the command, right click and select Paste from the popup menu. The identifier gets copied after that command.